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By: Terence Creamer10th September 2004
Cast your mind back to the late 1990s. South Africa’s steel
group Iscor was in dire straits. It, together with the Industrial
Development Corporation (IDC), had, in 1995, decided to pursue the
Saldanha Steel Project in the Western Cape. →

By: Terence Creamer10th September 2004
One of the aspects of the proposed new Transnet operational
structure is the vertical separation of the infrastructure and
operational aspects of the freight businesses - railways, harbours
and pipelines - in line with global best practice. →

By: Helene Le Roux10th September 2004
The solid collective performance of struggling State-owned
transport utility Transnet’s core assets bode well for
turning around the group’s fortunes.?Speaking at the
group’s results presentation for the period ending 31 March,
which was held in Johannesburg last week, Transnet... →

By: Irma Venter3rd September 2004
South African commuters may next month expect some answers as to
where the taxi recapitalisation process, currently plagued by
questions on its affordability, is headed. →

By: Terence Creamer3rd September 2004
Construction and engineering group Murray & Roberts - which
yesterday revealed that it had accepted an offer, subject to a
pre-emptive, for its 44% stake in Unitrans - has confirmed that it
has lodged a complaint with the Securities Regulatory Panel (SRP)
over what it sees as frustrating action... →

By: Terence Creamer3rd September 2004
State-owned rail utility Spoornet announced yesterday that it could
cut some 946 jobs in the next two months, but that it would enter
into a process with its trade unions in a bid to avoid forced
retrenchments. →

By: jenny furness17th August 2004
A request for proposals on the supply of ten special buses, to
service the tourist market in Durban, has been issued by the
eThekwini Transport Authority in Kwazulu-Natal. →

By: Riaan de Lange13th August 2004
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has informed that, with
immediate effect, all its branch offices will accept F178 forms
electronically attested by ABSA Bank up to July 1, 2005. →

By: Terence Creamer6th August 2004
When Sindi Mabaso, 34, who is currently the finance director at
State-owned transport giant Transnet, approached her final year at
Ogwini High in Umlazi in 1985, her mathematics teacher advised her,
along with the rest of the class, to drop from higher to standard
grade. →

By: Irma Venter30th July 2004
The Freightliner Fuso division at DaimlerChrysler South Africa has
expanded its local medium commercial Canter range to four products,
as part of a drive to increase Mitsubishi Fuso’s local
presence. →

By: Jill Stanford30th July 2004
Multitrade carrier Safmarine is introducing a fourth multipurpose
vessel (MPV) to carry breakbulk and project cargo from South Africa
to West Africa specifically for the growing oil and gas industry. →

30th July 2004
A joint venture between Trans African Concessions (TRAC), ANE and
the Mozambican Traffic Police has resulted in the construction of
two load control centres in the Matola and Boane areas, in
Mozambique. →

By: Martin Creamer26th July 2004
The last vestige of South Africa’s depleted truck-building
industry is poised to collapse unless the government carries out
two urgent interventions, MAN Truck and Bus MD Adolf Moosbauer
warned at the weekend. →

23rd July 2004
Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, MECs and officials left for
Europe this week to meet with members of the two consortia that are
bidding for a contract to build the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link
– Bombela and Gauliwe. →

By: Jill Stanford9th July 2004
THE Southern Unity, a new R250-million ship designed to transport
refined fuel around the Southern African and Namibian coasts, was
officially named in Cape Town on June 29 by South Africa’s
first lady Zanele Mbeki. →

By: Keith Campbell2nd July 2004
SOME weeks ago I was in Germany – Stuttgart to be precise, on
business.?I, along with other journalists from South Africa and all
over the world, stayed in a hotel in Vaihingen, on the edge of the
city, and right next to that hotel was a tram terminus. →

By: Jill Stanford2nd July 2004
The 1,2-million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) moved each year
by South Africa’s ports are expected to double by 2010 and
double yet again by 2020, while traffic volumes between Cape Town
and Gauteng have more than doubled between 1997 and 2003 to reach
over six million tons. →

29th June 2004
Tabling his department’s budget vote in the Gauteng
Legislature yesterday, Public Transport, Roads and Works MEC
Ignatius Jacobs announced a R3,3-billion budget for the
province’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP). →

By: Jill Stanford18th June 2004
IN South Africa the golden hour is not that euphoric hour after
FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced we were to host the World Cup
2010, but the hour from when your car is stolen to when you can buy
it as spare parts. →

By: Martin Czernowalow18th June 2004
South African Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said it was critically
important to examine ways to overcome structural and spatial
discriminations within the country’s transport sector. →

10th June 2004
Public entities are successfully responding to the challenges of
the expanded public works programme (EPWP) and increased public
investment in social and economic infrastructure, transport
department director-general Wrenelle Stander said yesterday. →

9th June 2004
Gauteng public transport, roads and works MEC Ignatius Jacobs
yesterday welcomed the challenges laid down by Gauteng Premier
Mbhazima Shilowa, at a briefing on key priorities of the provincial
government during the current five-year term. →

By: Jill Stanford4th June 2004
THE mismatch between subsidies and the types of public transport
used by commuters is one of the factors being considered in a
review of the public transport system, which is under way. →

28th May 2004
In line with its corporate strategy, Cargo Carriers has put wheels
under empowerment by establishing a R4-million empowerment-focused
sugarcane transport venture in the southern African sugar belt,
called Buhle Betfu Carriers. →

25th May 2004
The South African government will announce detailed investment
plans for certain State-owned enterprises (SOEs) by the end of
September, the country’s new Minister of Public Enterprises
said. →

By: Terence Creamer14th May 2004
The appointment by President Thabo Mbeki of Mandisi Mpahlwa, Jeff
Radebe and Alec Erwin to the trade and industry, transport, and
public enterprises portfolios respectively, sends out a strong
signal that he is seeking co-ordination from those with direct
responsibility for real-economic delivery. →